A man shopping for baby supplies on his birthday tried to leave a department store without paying for them, officials said.

Robert R. Backwell was found riding in a car with four boxes of diapers and and five cans of baby formula he had stolen from the Kmart at 400 North Best Ave., Lehigh Twp., Northampton Co., around 6:35 p.m. Monday, officials said.

The merchandise was worth a total of $227.11, they added.

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Blackwell shoved Kmart loss prevention official Mark Fogel, who tried to stop Blackwell from getting into a Ford Taurus driven by Jimmy Dorsey, an accomplice in the theft, officials said.

Fogel recognized Blackwell as matching the description of the person who earlier took a shopping cart full of diapers from a Kmart in the Allentown area, officials noted.

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